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Week 9 Studies Weekly: Early American Indians in Oklahoma

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is a primary souce?

a)

biography

b)

photograph

c)

dictionary

d)

textbook

2.

What is a seceondary source?

a)

an interview with an eyewitness to a historical event

b)

a photograph of a historical event

c)

a diary entry which was written by someone who witnessed a historical event

d)

a story written or told by someone who was not at an actual event

3.

What primary sources can yhelp you create your famliy tree?

a)

seeds you can plant

b)

birth and marriage certificates

c)

eyewitness accounts of an event

d)

family jokes

4.

who brought horses to the Great Plains?

a)

French explorers

b)

Italian explorers

c)

British explorers

d)

Spanish explorers

5.

What was important about the corn plant in "three sisters" farming?

a)

It gave special nutrients to the soil

b)

It kept racoons away.

c)

It provided a structure for the bean plant to clinb.

d)

It kept weeds away.

6.

How did horses change the lives of American Indians?

a)

They had to find food for the horses

b)

They now had pets

c)

They could travel faster

d)

They could follow the animals they hunted

7.

Any naturally made material from Earth that a person can use is called a ____

a)

human resource

b)

capital resource

c)

secondary resouce

d)

natural resouce

8.

The American Indians used things in nature, but they did not

a)

use everything up

b)

hurt or pollute the environment

c)

share with others

d)

use things made by people

9.

How did American Indians thank Mother Nature?

a)

They danced and celebrated

b)

They prepared lots of food.

c)

They gave her thank you cards.

d)

They spent time in the woods.

10.

What are somethings grown in Oklahoma?

a)

wheat, hay, soybeans and cotton

b)

flowers and trees

c)

fruits and vegetables

d)

pigs and chickens

11.

What is the definition of livestock?

a)

things that are alive

b)

lively animals

c)

animals raised for food

d)

active stock

12.

Some American Indian tribes traded for ___

a)

horses

b)

food

c)

crops

d)

fun

13.

What are three food that most American Indians grow?

a)

corn, beans and squash

b)

hay, wheat and soybeans

c)

apples, strawberries and raspberries

d)

potatoes, cucumbers and zucchini

14.

Where did American Indian farmers build their villages?

a)

in grassy fields

b)

in mountain valleys

c)

along rivers

d)

close to each other

15.

What evidence supports that American Indian farmers used grain?

a)

corn husk dolls

b)

buried baskets of corn

c)

stone bread ovens

d)

sandstone grinding basins

16.

What does foraging mean?

a)

going to the forest

b)

gathering foods that grow wild

c)

hunding for deer

d)

growing the three sisters

17.

Some foods that American Indians foraged were ___

a)

chocolate and sugar

b)

apples and oranges

c)

wild rice, nuts and seeds

d)

corn, beans and squash

18.

Why did American Indians only forage small amounts of things?

a)

They wanted the plants to replace themselves.

b)

They didn't need more.

c)

They could only find a little bit.

d)

They needed to share.

19.

American Indians trapped ___

a)

grizzly bears

b)

insects

c)

small animals

d)

wild birds

20.

Europeans traded items for ___

a)

beads and copper

b)

furs

c)

corn, beans and squash

d)

fish

21.

When American Indians couldn't find larger animals to hunt, they _____

a)

ate vegetables

b)

traded food for fur

c)

went further to hunt

d)

used small animals for food

22.

How many bison were on the Great Plains long ago?

a)

millions

b)

a few

c)

too many to count

d)

a few hundred

23.

What parts of the bison did American Indians use?

a)

the hide and horns

b)

nearly everything

c)

the meat and fur

d)

the meat and bones

24.

Why did bison become nearly extinct?

a)

They got a disease.

b)

They began to be hunted for sport.

c)

They ran out of food.

d)

The climate changed.

25.

What parts of the bison did American Indians use for trading?

a)

hides and jerky

b)

bison horns

c)

bones and sinew

d)

tails and feet

26.

What mineral was used to create sharp tools?

a)

turquoise

b)

copper

c)

cinnabar

d)

obsidian

27.

Why might scientists think that seashells were traded across the country?

a)

because there are legends about seashells

b)

because seashells have recently been found on the Great Plains.

c)

because American Indians from California told the scientists.

d)

because seashells are not naturally found on the Great Plains.

28.

Bison sinew was used for ___

a)

tipi coverings

b)

clothes

c)

bow string and thread

d)

pouches

29.

Why did the Plains Indians consider the bison sacred?

a)

they used bison hides to make religious clothing.

b)

The bison provided for so many of their needs.

c)

The bison was a beautiful animal.

d)

The bison provided cures for diseases.

30.

What could be made out fo bison hooves?

a)

rattles

b)

tools

c)

ladles and spoons

d)

glue